EVENTS
SANCHITA KEDIA
Yale SOM hosts “Fempire” colloquium after three-year hiatus

Fempire drew in over 130 attendees to attend workshops on how to thrive professionally and personally as a woman in management.

March 1, 2022

LUKAS FLIPPO, ALESSIA DEGRAEVE & ZOE BERG
Yale students, faculty and government officials rally in solidarity with Ukraine

Hundreds of students, faculty and New Haven residents gathered in front of Sterling Memorial Library on Sunday to show their support for Ukraine in the […]

February 28, 2022

Lukas Flippo Photo.
ALESSIA DEGRAEVE
23rd Frederick Douglass book award ceremony advocates for slavery studies in historical education

On Feb. 17, Yale’s Gilder Lehrman Center awarded two co-winners, Marjoleine Kars and Vincent Brown, the annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize.

February 23, 2022

ALESSIA DEGRAEVE
Lunarfest 2022 centers around repairing COVID-driven disconnect within the city

In response to pandemic concerns, Lunarfest aims to rebuild a sense of community within New Haven.

February 17, 2022

OLIVIA LOMBARDO
Yale Students Demand Action and Yale Dems talk gun violence prevention

Honoring the anniversary of the Parkland massacre, Students Demand Action and Yale Dems joined Senator Murphy to discuss the trajectory of gun violence in the U.S. and where to go from here.

February 17, 2022

DANTE MOTLEY
Writer Yi-Ling Liu ’17 speaks to Yale about Chinese internet culture

In a Poynter Fellowship in Journalism event on Monday, Liu spoke about Chinese internet and its culture in an event titled “Metaphors of Online Life in China.”

December 7, 2021

MIRANDA JEYARETNAM & ALEX YE
Jackson Institute hosts discussion with Ambassador Ryan Crocker

Ambassador Ryan Crocker, a former U.S. diplomat, engaged in a dialogue about how American diplomacy has changed since 9/11 with Executive Director of International Security Studies Ted Wittenstein.

December 3, 2021

PALOMA VIGIL
Two winners announced for the 2021 annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize

The prize, bestowed by Yale’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition, is given to books about slavery, abolition and their legacies.

December 1, 2021

GAVIN GUERRETTE
Yale Law School European Law Association co-hosts climate initiatives talk

The Yale European Law Association co-hosted a Monday talk on European Union climate initiatives. It featured leading scholars and analysts on matters of EU climate policy.

November 30, 2021

WILLIAM PORAYOUW
Yale hosts Ethiopia conference amid social media controversy, disinvites speaker

Ethiopia expert Professor Ann Fitz-Gerald removed from Macmillan Center event moderated by CNN reporter Nima Elbagir, sparks social media backlash.

November 21, 2021

ANIKA ARORA SETH & YASH ROY
Economic Growth Center hosts virtual conversation on “Afghanistan’s Future: Development, the state and the humanitarian challenge”

The Jackson Institute, in conjunction with the Economic Growth Center, held a discussion between the last pre-Taliban Afghan Finance Minister, a University of London Think Tank Director and the Former Secretary for International Development under Theresa May on the future of the Afghan people, nation and economy.

November 17, 2021